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North Creek introduced Standing Ovation, a little bluestem that stands tall — 3 to 4 feet — through all four seasons.

A field of bluestem unfurled to the south.

“I see the backlit gray-green leaves of little bluestem on hot summer afternoons, and the backlit coppery leaves of those same grasses through the winter,” he writes.

The land that hasn’t been cleared and converted to Bermuda grass for cattle grazing is covered in dense forest, or native grasses like little bluestem.

In the two-acre meadow in Delaware, plants are set amid a sea of prairie dropseed grass; in another bed, the matrix is of a low grass named little bluestem.